Was Alan Clark – maverick Tory minister ... a communist propaganda stunt, blagging his way into Lubyanka prison while he was at it? Clark’s biographer, Ion Trewin, consulted John Cornwell, alias John le Carré, who knew Alan in the early days, got ...

The speed and stylization of screwball humor were like a stunt, and some of the biggest directors of the thirties had come out of two-reel comedy and had the right training. Leo McCarey, who directed “The Awful Truth,” had directed the Marx Brothers in ...

Llewellin, 35, is a practitioner of the roue cyr, an acrobatic circus act in which his arms ... heavier than the other fliers – he's too heavy for the traditonal trapeze stunt of flying into the arms of a catcher. ''It just so happens I love flying

In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the camera keeps its distance from Ford’s stunt doubles – the charisma of an ageing action star has more to fear from obvious fakery in fights than from facial close-ups, since not much more is ...

THE STUNT MAN An escaped convict (Steve Railsback) finds cover posing as a stuntman on a film set dominated by a megalomaniacal director (Peter O’Toole). Barbara Hershey and Allen Garfield star in this cult favorite from 1980. Directed by Richard Rush.

There are the hate leters, the frustration of not being able to save movies like “The Stunt Man” and “Melvin and Howard ... The real John Reed [the film’s radical protagonist] was a notorious roue and womanizer and a lot more astute and a ...

"Hollywood Stunt Driver" which opened at Warner Bros ... Standing inside this clean stainless steel ring, Derek Llewellin (Australia's premier Roue Cyr artist), will use the near frictionless magic of the circle to spin and roll in every way imaginable.

You do wonder who the real-life counterparts of some of these fictional characters might be: the superstar who is secretly holed up in the hotel's presidential suite, severely ill; the aging roue who hosted ... citywide stunt to draw attention to the ...